July is a month for us with plenty of win, but two costly losses that ultimately could cost us the title. The loss to Kawasaki is the worse one, since we should be beating them at home. We were outplayed by Urawa, so sometimes you just have to accept that we are not good enough to challenge them.
We sit fourth in the league in the final Champions League spot, but it is only 3 points to leaders Kashima Antlers.

Another month is in the books, and we were good. We did lose a top of the table clash against Kashima in a hard fought game which was a downer but we reacted well.
We top the table at the half way point of the season. It is crowded at the top, lose a couple of games and we could find ourselves out of the Champions League spots, so we need to keep up the form.

An unfortunate piece of business, although we get a premium for him. Arnor leaves to close to £4m to Al-Shabab. He was upset that we didn't accept the original bid from them and then we said we would look at any other bids that came in for him. So when they came back for him, I decided to get as much money as we could for him. He was a very good player for us, but this has happened to me at Central Coast and in Fiji, so I think we will cope.

Every month seems to be congested with fixtures and May was no different. Very happy with how it went. The only blip was the draw to Sanfreece, whom are currently propping up the table, but overall we are performing very well and it looks like we may challenge the big boys for the league this season, although clearly we would be the dark horses.
The table is very tight the top with Kawasaki Frontale, ourselves and Kashima all on 29 points with Urawa and Yokohama also lurking just behind.

We get the job done in South Korea for the second leg of the Champions League 2nd Round. When they got the equaliser it was a little bit nervy but we got the job done and scored in injury time to kill the affair off and book our place in the Quarter Finals.